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Fla. woman gets life in prison in family killings
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who was convicted of orchestrating the beating deaths of her millionaire husband and mother-in-law was sentenced Monday to life in prison. The judge also called her a coward for skipping the court session.
Narcy Novack, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., waived her right to appear at the sentencing, apparently in protest, and listened to it from a prisoner holding area in an adjoining room.
Judge Kenneth Karas called it “her final act of cowardice.”
Novack did the same in June when she and her brother, Cristobal Veliz, were convicted of hiring hit men who carried out the 2009 beating deaths of Ben Novack Jr. in New York and Bernice Novack in Florida. Veliz, of Brooklyn, also was sentenced Monday to a life term.
“Because of Ms. Novack’s greed and her selfishness and what she thought was her ability to manipulate other people, there are two innocent people — her husband and her mother in law — who are dead,” the judge said.
Ben Novack, 53, was the son of the man who built the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach, a celebrity hangout in the 1950s and ’60s that appeared in the movies “Scarface” and “Goldfinger.”
He was beaten to death with dumbbells in July 2009 in his bed at a hotel in Rye Brook, N.Y., where his travel company was managing an Amway convention. A thug who admitted carrying out the killing testified that Narcy Novack ordered her husband’s eyes sliced with a knife and offered a pillow to muffle his screams.
Three months earlier, Novack’s 86-year-old mother, Bernice, was killed in Fort Lauderdale by being clobbered in the teeth and head with a plumber’s wrench.
The killings “involved particularly cruel, sadistic and gratuitous savagery seldom seen in the annals of crime,” prosecutors said when they called for life sentences.
They said Narcy Novack feared that her husband would divorce her, and that a prenuptial agreement would bar her from the multimillion-dollar family estate. They said her motives were “hatred, greed and vengeance.”
http://news.yahoo.com/fla-woman-gets-lif…35346.html
2012-12-17 19:00:37
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